Tears For Fears became huge in the 80s with their sumptuous, shadowy new wave anthems but, like many 80s stars, their popularity dried up somewhat as that decade morphed into the next. But if you can stick at it long enough then the limelight tends to comes back round, and that’s exactly what happened to the Bath-formed duo in the 21st century, as co-vocalist and bassist Curt Smith told The New Cue in 2022.
“It’s fascinating,” Smith marvelled. “These things happen that you can be out of fashion and suddenly people are sampling you and covering you and then you’re kind of hip again. But this is what happens if you stay alive and stay around long enough, you will come back into fashion at some point! And clearly we might be on that sort of wave now, hopefully it continues for a little bit.”
